These last couple of weeks have been pretty good, what with all the great sporting events of the world going on and whatnot. Between the World Cup and a Wimbledon for the history books, I've appreciated yet another distraction from being "with child" without a husband around. Bret and I have even been able to watch a couple of World Cup matches together over video chat (keeping our fingers crossed that Brazil takes it now that USA is out) and perhaps an episode of the Bacherlorette as well.
In honor of these sporting events, I'm looking back to Summer 2006 when I was on study abroad and lucked out with some amazing seats at Wimbledon (please forgive my froofy hair and weird outfit, it's a mandatory part of the study abroad experience).
On that day almost exactly four years ago , about a dozen of us took the tube out to Wimbledon, bought ground passes and then waited in line at the resale booth for seats to a match. The resale tickets are only five pounds but basically a complete gamble. For instance, you could get OK seats to one of the smaller courts and watch mixed doubles or something random as some in our group did (which would have still been amazing by the way) or you could get lucky with seats to a Centre Court match like a few of the others did. My friend Sammy and I were luckier still, scoring a pair of front row seats to Centre Court for the women's semifinal.
We couldn't believe our good fortune and we certainly made the most of it! Our attempts at being proper and dignified, however, were not successful.
Maria Sharapova vs. Amelie Mauresmo. Both amazing and powerful players but Mauresmo ended up winning the match.
It was an experience of a lifetime, one that I can only hope to repeat someday with Bret... what'd ya say B, next summer? :)
2 comments:
Oh, how I love to reminisce about London. So glad I'm not the only one! I love life now, but if I have to relive any part of my life, it would definitely by our London summer.
i didn't know you know carolyn!
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